Finance Department ~ City Of Old Town, Maine (2)

While Mayor Mike was and is, fiddling, New York was and continues, burning, and the public needs to see exactly what this fiddler did/is doing, now that we are about to have no choice but elect his deputies in November 2013 (I mean Scott Stringer, Christine Quinn, Bill De Blasio, Tom Allon). Mail or personally deliver it to your nearest Canada Revenue Agency office or their outdoor mailbox. Wait for a reply from the Canada Revenue Agency Disability Tax Credit Department, if you have been approved write a letter back to the Canada Revenue Agency Disability Tax Credit Department. If you have more questions that need answers regarding the Child Disability Benefit call the Canada Revenue Agency. It seems much easier to get disability benefits in Canada than in the United States. We are pleased to be working with the Department of Finance to deliver a single, integrated enterprise solution.

The Secretary of the Department of Finance, Dr. Ken Ngangan said IFMS was a critical initiative, and a major enabler of improved public financial management. He said strong financial management was a fundamental pillar of effective and successful economic performance in Papua New Guinea and emphasised that responsibility for sound financial management started with each Government department.

The Department of Finance is mandated by the Public Finances (Management) Act to ensure that public funds are managed and transacted in a transparent and accountable way and the IFMS is a tool that assists us do that effectively,” Dr Ngangan noted. Consequently one of the people he met with was a woman in the finance department of the hospital. A couple of weeks after the surgery we started to receive mail from J’s insurance company’s claims department.

We didn’t know what to make of it all yet, and out of sheer desperation J got on the phone to the billing department of the hospital to ask them if he was being charged extra for a private hospital room, and they said no. She phoned a friend of hers who is the leading surgeon of another major hospital and he told her that when she gets her bill, she should call the billing department of the hospital and ask them how much Medicare would pay for each item. We ordered copies of J’s itemized hospital bill, and that took three tries for the billing department to get right. We sent off the required information to the billing department and waited with fingers and toes crossed.

When it came to the bill, the only thing that was clear was that the billing department wasn’t interested in making anything easy for us. Trying to make sense of that bill, which is written in a code more difficult to read than Latin, was a new challenge in itself. I learned, when negotiating down our bill, we should ask the billing department what Medicare would pay for the same procedure, and explain to them that we don’t feel we should have to pay more than other patients for the same procedure. You can also do a dual degree whereby for instance you can take MBA and integrate it with a dual degree in Finance or strategy.